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Autoblogging – An Experiment

July 6th, 2010 |

Warning: This method of creating blogs is considered blackhat and will not give you a sustainable blog that will create money for you in the long run. This is strictly for short term gain, although I do have some autoblog networks that continue to make me money.

I am going to dust off some old tools I have used in the past and start an autoblog network…. An autoblog is basically a blog with automated, scheduled content. I use a combination of unique and machine generated content. I will list the tools I use later on in the post. My goal is to have 10 domains with 40 to 50 directories that contain individual blogs. I will end up having approximately 500 blogs for this experiment. I will be promoting the same product and related products in each “network”. My definition of a network is one domain with 40 to 50 blogs under the root… So I will end up having 10 networks of 40 to 50 blogs promoting the same and related products.

I will post the results of my experiments to people who are on my email list. I will post the clicks generated to my sponsor and other tricks I have employed to get traffic to the autoblogs. I also employ wordpress cloaking so that visitors of my blog go directly to the site I am promoting… You may or may not agree with it, but it is a tool that is available to the masses.

Again, I want to stress that this is NOT a long term method of making money… It is a constant cat and mouse game with the search engines. This can however, give you short term gains. There are exceptions to this, like I said, I have autoblog networks that are still around, but do not depend on it. If you want to create long term traffic and income, I urge you to take the course that TheNicheBlogger.com provides… If you use a combination of black and white hat techniques, being certain that you do each separately.. then you can create yourself a nice ongoing income.

I am not going to debate with anyone that thinks this is not the “right thing to do”…. It is google’s game for the most part… if you want to play by their ever-changing rules, that is for you to decide. For me, I am going to take advantage of every legal loophole to make money from their search engine I can….. and I mean legal in the eyes of the law of our land, not the law according to Google. I have been doing this same thing for many years, the game has changed a lot, as well it should, but there is a substantial amount of money to made online… if you are dedicated enough to do it.

Listed below are the tools that I use and a brief explanation (for now) how they are used.

1. Hostgator (webhosting) You have heard it before, it takes money to make money. Before you can build a house, you need to lay the foundation.. This is where you lay your foundation for you blogs.. You need to have it reside somewhere.. this will be your hosting. I LOVE hostgator, the support is awesome and you are never left guessing what is going on. They have 24 hour live chat so you can always get help. If you are on my email list, there is a coupon code that I give out.

2. WordTracker (for keyword research). The google adwords tool just does not cut it.. You can get many, many more keywords from wordtracker. However, it DOES cost money, so if you are on a budget then google adwords will do just fine.

WordPress Manager DX - This will create the blogs for you. I used to do this by hand (on subdomains no less) and it was a royal pain in the butt and time consuming. With this script, you create a profile, the plugins, themes, default posts, permalink structure, and anything else that you need to do with wordpress… You can do it ONCE and create as many wordpress blogs as your hosting plan can handle. Saves an unbelievable amount of time. I used to do it the hard way… creating each blog, uploading themes, plugins, changing things, etc… Now I do it once and use the same template for each blog. I used to create a subdomain for each blog, with each one actually having it’s own cpanel, but this way is MUCH MUCH better.. and from what I can gather, google likes these just as much as a blog on a subdomain. It is just not worth the hassle to create a separate cpanel account for each blog.

Markov Content - This is machine generated content. I use it in combination with content that I write or have written (then spun) for my autoblogs… I have had a lot of success with it in the past. You need to be sure you are using copywrited material however, I am always very careful about that. I usually use PLR (private label rights) content and content that I have written or had a ghostwriter write.

That is it for the basic tools… you will need some plugins for wordpress, but I will go over that later on this week. Stay Tuned for More. Again, people on my email list will get the results and more details on my experiments, so be sure you are on it.